Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...University of California Santa Cruz, and Eric Porter, a University of California Santa Cruz American Studies and history professor, take the title of their book from a five-movement Duke Ellington-composed...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
Presentation Part 2: Nunn discusses how Rodgers’ music was appropriated and recontextualized in South Africa and Kenya in the 1930’s and 1940’s Part 3: Erich Nunn, Selected questions and answers About the...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...of the US South. Throughout Scott-Heron's expansive body of work, from his 1972 novel, The Nigger Factory, to his 2010 release, I'm New Here, the South looms large in his...
Work
...the machine room. My only factory stint. Never set foot in a towel mill. But that doesn't matter. I dreamed my mother's and grandmother's dreams. Dreams of clatter and snap,...
Chattahoochee (excerpt)
...my reel and disappears through a window's tilted frame, around a tree stump's rotten bowl, over a scuttled Lincoln half-buried in the mud. Below, clear fins fan the water, and...
Leavenworth newspaper
...large indignation meeting was held by the farmers, and the outrageous action was denounced as it should be in free Kansas." Published: 6 September 2007 © 2007 Brent M.S....
When the Border Crossed Me
Video Charles D. Thompson, Los Rostros del Tiempo: Faces of Time, 2014. Reflection My border odyssey began in 1985 on a farm near Pittsboro, North Carolina. On a hot summer...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
...sheeting from raw cotton at the Katherine Plant of Springs Mills (now Springs Global) in Chester, South Carolina in 2006. About the Photographer Pressly Hall is a professional freelance photographer...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...In comparison with scholarly works that connect Vodou practice and migration as parallel processes—such as Karen McCarthy Brown's oft-cited Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn, Elizabeth McAlister's Rara! Vodou,...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...Chapel Hill. On an August evening in 1906, a white mob stormed the county jail in Salisbury, North Carolina, seeking six black prisoners indicted that day for the brutal murder...